BILL NUMBER: SCR 97	CHAPTERED  09/12/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   135
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 12, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 28, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 24, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 24, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Burton
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Ackerman, Alquist, Aroner,
Ashburn, Baldwin, Bates, Battin, Bock, Calderon, Campbell, Cardenas,
Cardoza, Cedillo, Corbett, Cox, Cunneen, Davis, Ducheny, Dutra,
Firebaugh, Florez, Floyd, Gallegos, Granlund, Havice, Hertzberg,
Honda, House, Jackson, Kaloogian, Keeley, Knox, Kuehl, Leach,
Lempert, Leonard, Longville, Lowenthal, Machado, Maddox, Maldonado,
Margett, Mazzoni, McClintock, Migden, Nakano, Olberg, Oller, Robert
Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti, Reyes, Romero, Runner, Scott,
Shelley, Steinberg, Strickland, Strom-Martin, Thompson, Thomson,
Torlakson, Villaraigosa, Vincent, Washington, Wayne, Wesson, Wiggins,
Wildman, Wright, and Zettel)

                        AUGUST 22, 2000

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 97--Relative to the Alfred Zampa
Memorial Bridge.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 97, Burton.  Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge.
   This measure would designate the westbound span of the Carquinez
Bridge as the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge in honor and recognition
of Alfred "Al" Zampa.  The measure also would request the Department
of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.




   WHEREAS, Alfred "Al" Zampa was born on March 12, 1905, in Selby,
California, the oldest son of southern Italian immigrants, and the
brother to two brothers and two sisters; and
   WHEREAS, After graduating from high school, Al Zampa went into
business and became the owner of a meat market in Crockett,
California until about 1924, when a customer asked him if he wanted
to go to work for that customer on the bridge they were building from
Crockett to Vallejo; and
   WHEREAS, When after some hesitation, Al Zampa decided to give it a
try; and
   WHEREAS, The first Carquinez Bridge opened in May of 1927, in part
due to Al Zampa's efforts, and that bridge was to be the first of
many bridges Al Zampa would work on in his illustrious career as an
iron worker; and
   WHEREAS, Al Zampa continued working with the company that built
the Carquinez Bridge and worked on projects and bridges in Stockton,
California and later in Arizona and Texas, returning to California in
the early 1930's to work on the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge and
the Golden Gate Bridge; and
   WHEREAS, On October 20, 1936, this outstanding iron worker fell
into the safety net while working on the Golden Gate Bridge and broke
four vertebrae in his back; and
   WHEREAS, During his years of recuperation following that accident,
Al Zampa and a couple of his friends founded the area's first
baseball league for the local youth; and
   WHEREAS, He later returned to iron work and worked on the second
Carquinez Bridge in the 1950's with his two sons, Richard L. (Dick)
and Gene; and
   WHEREAS, Al Zampa also worked on the Martinez Bridge and the
Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and continued to work as a respected iron
worker until he retired at the age of 65; and
   WHEREAS, Many years after his retirement, and prior to the Golden
Gate Bridge's 50-Year Celebration, Al Zampa received much deserved
recognition and notoriety; and
   WHEREAS, In 1987, he was the subject of a stage play entitled "The
Ace" that was performed at Fort Mason in San Francisco, was
interviewed by news stations from all over the world, and was
interviewed by Charles Kuralt for the national television show "On
the Road"; and
   WHEREAS, Al Zampa was also interviewed for the History Channel on
top of the building of the Golden Gate Bridge and more recently for a
new show entitled "Suicide Missions:  Skywalkers" which depicts the
history of the Iron Worker Union; and
   WHEREAS, Al Zampa was always proud to be a 65-year-old union
member and grateful to have received a union pension after retiring
from Iron Workers Local 378, Oakland, in 1970; and
   WHEREAS, Al Zampa strongly believed in supporting the labor
endorsed candidates, from the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill
Clinton, and was a staunch lifelong Democrat, having never missed an
election; and
   WHEREAS, Al Zampa passed away on April 23, 2000, at the age of 95,
and will be missed by many; and
   WHEREAS, It would be a fitting tribute to Alfred "Al" Zampa to
name the soon-to-be-completed westbound span of the Carquinez Bridge
as the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
westbound span of the Carquinez Bridge the Alfred Zampa Memorial
Bridge in honor and recognition of Alfred "Al" Zampa; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those plaques and markers; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
distribution.
